The Top Seeds Dominate the PPA Tour Finals - Tournament Recap
The Dink's Erik Tice recaps the Toys 'R' Us PPA Finals at Life Time Rancho San Clemente, where Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns took mixed doubles, Anna Bright and Waters cruised through women's doubles, and Ben Johns and Gabe Tardio dropped no games in men's doubles to close an undefeated 2026 campaign. With Waters out of women's singles on a knee injury, Kate Fahey ran the table for gold and Chris Haworth recovered from a pool-play loss to Connor Garnett to pickle Federico Staksrud in the semis and beat John Lucian Goins 11-2, 11-8 in the men's singles final.
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Pickleball.com's Jim Kloss runs through the major stories from the Toys 'R' Us PPA Finals in San Clemente, including Ben Johns and Anna Leigh Waters extending their dominant streaks, Chris Haworth solidifying his case as the world's top men's singles player despite an early pool-play loss to Connor Garnett, and Kate Fahey closing the 2025-2026 season as the clear No. 2 women's singles player. Kloss also breaks down the specific strategies opponents used to freeze out JW Johnson and CJ Klinger in men's doubles and flags PPA 500 winners Kiora Kunimoto, Rafa Lenhard, Tama Shimabukuro, Yuta Funemizu, Sahra Dennehy, Danni Townsend, and Nico Acevedo as candidates to crash next year's Finals field.
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